WACC1000 - Brickworks Building Products Sustainability Analysis

This presentation provides a comprehensive analysis of Brickworks' sustainability report, focusing on the company's main sustainable initiatives and the associated costs and benefits. It highlights Brickworks' objectives to build safer, resilient, and sustainable communities through strong governance and a culture of care. The analysis covers key aspects such as responsible business practices, people and community engagement, and environmental stewardship. The presentation also delves into Brickworks' competitive strategies, including thermal designing, life cycle education, and increasing the volume of sustainable products. Furthermore, it discusses the company's adherence to business ethics, whistle-blower programs, and diversity & inclusion plans. The cost-benefit analysis includes investments in hydrogen fuel economy and efforts to reduce water usage. The report concludes that sustainability is crucial for achieving various benefits and emphasizes the importance of identifying sustainable strategies and initiatives. Desklib offers a platform to explore similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS OR
CSR REPORTS BRICKWORKS
BUILDING PRODUCTS

Introduction
 Sustainability is the process of making organization capable of maintaining position in
industry.
 In the current era, there are several factors which highly influence processing of
companies so in order to maintain competitive advantages it becomes crucial to develop
sustainable strategy.
 The current study is based on Brickworks is one of largest & diverse building products
organization that operates in manufacturing industry.
 In present report will contain main sustainable initiatives and cost & benefits of
implementing and reporting on same.

Main sustainable initiatives of the company
 The main objectives of for creating sustainable initiatives is to get quality building
products
 It aims at getting opportunities for building safer , resilient and sustainable
 This is exerted by conducting strong governance and culture of care in communities.
 Brickworks largely gives emphasis on completing its responsibilities towards
shareholders, employees, industry, environment, community, employees, etc.

Continued
 Sustainability framework is largely focused towards key aspects such as responsible
business, people & community and environment (Lam and et.al., 2020).
 Strategy of gaining sustainability through sustainable manufacturing’s, strong culture
care for community, designing safe and resilient.
 There is clear road map for achieving sustainability with gaining positive impact on
environment & social via creating strong compliance with governance and culture of
society.

Continued
Competitive advantages of strategy
 Its competitive strategy includes thermal designing, life cycle education, and
doubling the volume of sustainable products (Brickworks sustainability strategy, 2021).
 There are few corporate social responsibilities as well which are required to be
emphasised in turn higher substantiality & efficiency can be derived.
 Reducing supply chain risk so that proper availability of resources can be obtained.

Continued
 Brickworks largely concentrate on adhering with business ethics and whistle bower
programs in order to get the ability to decline rates regarding injury.
 It as well largely focus on having strength targets like 35% for developing diversity &
inclusion plan.
 For sustainability purpose Brickwork invest in hydrogen fuel economy and provides
largely emphasis on declining portable water sue in stressed areas.

Sustainable strategy focuses on following
strategy
Culture
Employee engagement
Diversity and inclusion

Cost and benefits of executing reporting
on sustainable initiatives
 Brickwork mainly focus on taking variety of initiatives for meeting its corporate as
well social responsibilities.
 It aims to develop positive impact on stakeholders so that longer processing can be
attained.
 It is concerned with identifying particulars strategy, drawing a timeline for expected
cost & its benefits, controlling and declining to certain extent, and calculating that time
value of money is achieved or not.

Continued
 Strategy of building design safe, resilient and sustainable includes research on passive solar
thermal design, enabling reducing lifetime energy, etc
 Designing tools , guidance and information to incorporate life cycle for building design (Wu and
Cerceo, 2021).
 This will help in achieving benefits like proper compliance with government and conducting ethical
practices.
 Optimum utilization of resources and declined supply chain risk provides assistance in meeting
goal of having double volume with holding sustainable qualities.

Continued
 Sustainable manufacturing strategy requires larger capital to invest in conversion to hydrogen
fuel economy that is most expensive step.
 Economic manufacturing drives progressive rehabilitation which can contribute in achieving
capability to incline in recycled material utilization
 $2 million is required to be invested for gaining emission slack off in turn higher efficiency
can be derived for increasing 10% gas efficiency by 2030.
 It will as well help in gaining the ability to contribute towards success and accomplishing
corporate social responsibilities.

Conclusion
 From the above report it can be concluded that sustainability is one of the crucial aspect
that helps in achieving variety of benefits.
 In addition to this, current report has given emphasis on developing larger emphasis on
identifying sustainable strategies and initiatives taken by specified organization.
 Present report has given focus on conducting cost benefit analysis of sustainable
strategy in order to make evaluation of competitive advantages.

References
 Books and journals
 Lam, D. P and et.al., 2020. Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification
processes. Urban Transformations. 2. pp.1-24.
 Arya, B. and et.al.,2021. Leading entrepreneurial sustainability initiatives in emerging
economies. International Journal of Emerging Markets.
 Silvestre, B.S. and et.al., 2020. Supply chain sustainability trajectories: learning through sustainability
initiatives. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
 Wu, S. and Cerceo, E., 2021. Sustainability Initiatives in the Operating Room. The Joint Commission
Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
 Lichtenthaler, U., 2021. Digitainability: the combined effects of the megatrends digitalization and
sustainability. Journal of Innovation Management. 9(2). pp.64-80.
 Brickworks sustainability strategy. 2021. [Online]. Available through <
https://www.brickworks.com.au/sustainability/